Correlates of extinction risk in squamate reptiles: The relative importance of biology, geography, threat and range size

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 391-405

  Böhm, Monika ^a   Williams, Rhiannon ^a,b   Bramhall, Huw R ^a,c   Mcmillan, Kirsten M ^a,d   Davidson, Ana D ^e,f,g   Garcia, Andrés ^h   Bland, Lucie M ⁱ   Bielby, Jon ^a   Collen, Ben ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATURESERVE   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decline; Extinction risk; Lizard; Phylogeny; Prediction; Reptile; Snake

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RISK; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; RANGE SIZE; SNAKE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84954286409     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12419     Document Type: Article

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